FitzHenry Fern, Martin Linda, Doran Johniene
Department of Biomedical Informatic, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn, USA.
Healthc Financ Manage. 2009 Sep;63(9):62-4, 66, 68 passim.
Identifying missed opportunities for revenue requires examining front-end processes and how they might join with transactions generated during processes of care. Linking the initiation of a charge to an important process in the clinic procedures helps ensure capture of both professional and facility charges. Implementing a software program to automatically initiate correlated charges and measuring the change in charges and revenue are steps that provide a substantial revenue opportunity for healthcare organizations.